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Ray Moss

Posted: 08/13/2024

Raymond Edward Moss March 23, 1932 - August 9, 2024 WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA - Raymond Edward Moss was born on March 23, 1932, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He passed away peacefully at home on August 9, 2024. In 1927, Ray's mother, Mary Elizabeth Conaway, married Arthur Raymond Moss in Emden, Illinois, before they moved to the hills of Western Pennsylvania. It was a hardscrabble life; Ray remembered the sound of the wind whistling through the cracks in the shack where he was raised. When he was five, Arthur died of rheumatic fever, and not long after, Ray and his mother moved back to Illinois. Over the next few years, he worked on a farm in the summers, lived for a time with his beloved aunt, Minne Dever, and finally moved to Clinton, Illinois, in 1947, when his mother married Dwight Farnsworth. Always popular with his peers, Ray was voted Senior Class President, and graduated from Clinton Community High School in 1950. That fall, he attended Illinois State University. He married hi

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